Test 3
Sajuba Goverment Girls High school
Annual Examination : 2025-26
| Subject: English | Std: 9 | Total Marks: 20 |
| Student Name: ________________________________ | Roll No: ________ |
SECTION - A
Read the extracts answer and answer the questions. [12]
A shoveller is not a native Indian bird. But it migrates from the cold regions of Russia. This bird must have lost its way due to strong wind. In its effort to join the flock, it got exhausted and fell in the park like a ball.
- (1) From where does the shoveller migrate ?
- (2) How did the bird fall in the park ?
The Vedas sing about oneness of man and nature. The idea expressed in the ancient texts have universal value. We have always tried for the preservation and prosperity of all the species including mankind on this earth.
- (3) What do the Vedas sing ?
- (4) The ideas expressed in the ancient texts have .
'Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park' is the official name of this site. It is designated as a centre of plant diversity. The Forest Research Institute, in 1992, recorded 600 species of angiosperms (Magnoliya, a flower plant) and 30 pteridophyts (unrolling fern) in the valley surroundings. The botanists discovered 58 new plants. Many of these species are globally threatened.
- (5) What is the official name of the site ?
- (6) What did the botanists discover in the Valley of Flowers ?
Long long ago a Zulu hunter was sitting under a tree. His name was Edie. He saw a large herd of deer grazing in the lush green meadow.
He said to himself, "These deer are really wonderful but I have to run a lot to catch one of them. Can't there be an easy way to get one?"
He said to himself, "These deer are really wonderful but I have to run a lot to catch one of them. Can't there be an easy way to get one?"
- (7) Who was Edie ?
- (8) What did Edie see ?
Say whether the sentences are True or False. [04]
- 13. Rani ki Vaav is a seven - storeyed structure. ________
- 14. Pandit Viswa Mohan Bhatt is the winner of Grammy Award. ________
- 15. The Ramayana sings the oneness of man and nature. ________
- 16. Reshma was playing the ball game with the neighbouring children. ________
SECTION - B
Read the stanza and answer the questions. [03]
Until I saw the sea
I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so
I never knew
that sun
could splinter a whole sea of blue
I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so
I never knew
that sun
could splinter a whole sea of blue
- 17. The rhyming word of 'knew' is .
- 18. What could the wind wrinkle ?
- 19. Ocean means .
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